Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several predominantly white, swift-flying sea birds of the genus Phaethon, of warm regions, having small weak legs and a pair of long, slender, central tail feathers.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the various seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, typically found in the open ocean in the tropics
WordNet 3.0
- n. mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land
Etymologies
- tropic + bird (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The major islands have such special species as the white-tailed tropicbird, the rare Manx (Newell's) shearwater, and the dark-rumped petrel, all of which seek crater walls for nesting.”
“For seabirds some of the largest colonies of tropical Atlantic seabirds are found on the Fernando de Noronha islands, with large numbers species including the black noddy or Anous minutis, the brown noddy Anous stolidus, the sooty tern Sterna fuscata, the fairy tern Gygis alba, the masked booby Sula dactylatra, the brown booby Sula leucogaster, the red footed booby Sula sula; the magnificent frigatebird Fragata magnificans and the red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus.”
“Other important breeding seabird populations are the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) and red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda).”
“White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) occurs as a distinctive morph on Europa Island.”
“Geographical variation in the white-tailed tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, with the description of a new subspecies endemic to Europa Island, southern Mozambique Channel.”
“These differences lead scientists to believe that the Europa population of white-tailed tropicbird is isolated from other nearby colonies in the Indian Ocean; it has been proposed as a distinct subspecies, Phaethon lepturus europae, by Le Corre and Jouventin.”
“The bird fauna of Niue Island, southwest Pacific, with special notes on the white-tailed tropicbird and golden plover.”
“Other notable species are the brown booby (16), blue-footed booby (2,000), white-tailed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus (100) and brown noddy Anous stolidus (650 – the largest colony in Mexico).”
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
“It looked similar to a tern species and then I saw the long tail," she said of the tropicbird.”
“Ms. Miller planned to turn the tropicbird over to Mr. Sweet, who was eager to collect as many accidental visitors as possible.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tropicbird’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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tropic topics
tropical topicals
subtropic, phototropic, hypermetropic, geotropic, eolotropic, pleiotropic, inotropic, adrenocorticotropic, coptic tropic, apogeotropic, allotropic, orthotropic and 76 more...
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Bird birds
Birds that have the word bird in their names. (This list also includes some general descriptions of certain kinds of birds - wading birds, water birds, &c.) For other bird-related fun (especially p...
blackbird, bluebird, bird of paradise, tropicbird, boatswain bird, secretary bird, millerbird, frigatebird, surfbird, kingbird, catbird, bellbird and 69 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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